Using Your Drive
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Using Zip
®
Disks
Use only Genuine 100MB* Zip
®
disks with your Zip USB drive. This
section describes some of the things you can do with Zip disks. The
help files contained in your Iomega software package include additional
information on using Zip disks.
*100MB capacity where 1MB = 1 million bytes. The capacity reported by your
operating system may vary.
Backing Up with Zip
®
Disks
It’s important to always keep current backups of your valuable data –
whether the primary data is stored on your hard drive or Zip disks! And
you can use Zip disks to back up both. The easiest way to back up your
hard drive to Zip disks is to use the backup program included in your
Iomega software package (1-Step Backup/Restore for Windows 98). If
you want to back up important selected files and have them
immediately available without having to run a restore procedure, you
can use your system’s standard procedures to copy files from your hard
drive to your Zip drive (for example, drag-and-drop files or folders
using My Computer in Windows 98). For information on how to back
up one Zip disk to another, see the next section.
M NOTE: The 1-Step Backup program is designed to back up data files
and will not back up all of the operating system files on your hard drive
or any files that are in use. M
Copying Zip
®
Disks
To make a copy of a Zip disk, use Copy Machine – it can duplicate a
Zip disk using a single Zip drive. To copy a disk with Copy Machine,
double click the Copy Machine icon in your IomegaWare folder, insert
the disk you want to copy, and follow the screen instructions. If you
need information on how to set Copy Machine options, select Help
from the Copy Machine menu bar.
M NOTE: Copy Machine cannot copy any files that are open or in use at
the time the copy is made. M
M IMPORTANT! When copying Zip disks on a PC system, do NOT use
the Microsoft CopyDisk utility that is available when you right mouse
click on the Zip drive icon under Windows 98, or the DOS program
DISKCOPY.EXE, which is included with Windows 98. These utilities
only work correctly with floppy drives. M
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